Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!wang!ice From: ice@wang.com (Fredrik Nyman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: CD sound gets short shrift in NeXTWorld article Keywords: sound output CD 16-bit float benchmark RAM prices Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 18:53:30 GMT References: <1991Mar17.022207.9534@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 14 beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (James Beauchamp) writes: >I am also wondering about the benchmarks in Table 2. I heard that floating >point performance of the 040 was going to soar compared to the 030. The >float benchmark they give only shows a 46% improvement, a long way from the >x10 improvement I heard about last year. In the text of the article they >make no comment about this insipid result. All instructions on the 68882 FPU didn't fit in the 68040. Those that didn't make it on chip are emulated in software and are a *LOT* slower than the on-chip fp instructions. -- Fredrik Nyman [NeXT: ice@red-zinger.wang.COM] Global Adaptation Center BITNET: , Wang Laboratories, Inc., M/S 019-490, One Industrial Ave., Lowell MA 01851, USA